Staying healthy is difficult enough for the average person, but maintaining good health on the road comes with even greater challenges. Reuters has an interesting article on what some trucking companies are doing to keep their drivers healthy . These
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Related to last weeks post on one-person businesses , the Contra Costa Times has an interesting article discussing “micro-multinational” businesses , or small to medium sized companies that do business on a global scale. Instead of following the traditional
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Several states (NV, IN, OH, IL, MS) have proposed adding truck-only lanes to congested highways. These states argue that truck-only lanes will help reduce congestion and accidents, while increasing commerce. However, some truckers and transportation companies
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Over the next few days, uShip will make several significant changes to our policy on cancellations. While some cancellations are expected and inevitable in the transportation industry, others occur because of inadequate communication between customers and Service Providers (TSPs), inefficient or overbidding by TSPs, or attempts to circumvent uShip fees.
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I was pleasantly surprised by the most recent census data, which revealed that over 78% of all US businesses were what are called “Single Person Businesses.” Part of why uShip was started was to enable small business owners and, in particular, Owner-Operators
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After reading about the truck driver serial killer , we just wanted to take a second to remind everyone out there to be safe! Take care, uShippers.
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We have launched our first major update of our Categories in over three years. In order to better categorize the expanding types of goods that our members are shipping on uShip, we are making some changes.
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As I’m sure everyone knows, McDonalds uses quite a bit of oil for cooking; as you might not have heard—the fast food chain is starting to do something productive with all that oil (besides making delicious french fries!) In the UK, McDonalds has decided
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This blog post is WAY past due, however, I was trying to hold off to see if we could solve our technical problems (okay, not really technical, just a lost camera) before posting our eBay Live wrap-up! As many of you know, eBay Live is the annual event
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